Iain Smith

Associate Director of Association (ACAR-QI)

With over 25 years of experience in the English NHS in national, regional and local roles, Iain is an experienced senior leader with a nationally established reputation in the field of healthcare quality improvement. He has many years of experience applying systematic improvement methods in various healthcare contexts and in designing and implementing improvement strategies at local, regional and national scale. Iain is experienced in learning design and pedagogy and has delivered national capability building programmes using both traditional face-to-face and technology enhanced learning formats. He is a mathematics graduate and holds postgraduate qualifications in research methods and transformational change as well as a PhD in healthcare quality improvement. Iain also undertakes visiting academic work and is an Associate Editor for the BMJ Leader journal.